Haunani-Kay Trask blazed trail for indigenous academics
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Professor Trask died yesterday aged 71.
She was the founding director of the University of Hawai’i s Centre for Hawaiian Studies.
Emalani Case, a lecturer in Pacific studies at Victoria University of Wellington, says her countrywoman inspired a generation of academics and activists through her fiery speeches and fearless opposition to colonialism. She was strong enough to stand up and say things like This is not America, if you are coming to Hawaii, this is not America, we are not Americans, we are Hawaiians. She was this strong mana wahine who was showing us that we could do the same, that we had to do the same, we have to be strong, that we had to be staunch, that we had to be unapologetically Hawaiian, Ms Case says.
The Seymour Island reading caused considerable excitement at the time as it was thought to have been the first time a temperature above 20C was recorded at Antarctica. But the WMO evaluation team found it was “very likely” the temperature sensor there had shown measurements that were higher than the actual temperature.
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What New Zealand s Scott Base facility in Antarctica could look like once it s completed. (Video published May 2021) “Photographs indicated that the air temperature sensor was installed within an improvised radiation shield,” the team wrote in an article published in the “Accurate temperature measurements require free circulation of air around the instrument as well as shielding from direct solar heating, among other factors.”
By Bryce Edwards
Opinion - This week New Zealand was officially pronounced the second most peaceful nation on Earth - just behind Iceland - in the publication of the annual Global Peace Index. New Zealand s high peacefulness score was based on the country s low amount of violence, conflict and terrorism.
Defence Minister Peeni Henare said defence spending is business as usual .
Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
However, New Zealand was marked down in the results this year because of an increase in weapons imports and military expenditure. You can read the full report here: Global Peace Index 2021.
Also in this last week, Labour has reconfirmed that the massive increases in defence spending agreed to during the last term of government are to be largely retained.
Friday, 2 July 2021, 1:47 pm
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For humans, our ecosystem (in full, ecological system) is something upon which we are utterly dependent for food and habitat but most of us rarely, if ever, think about. The ecosystem consists of many different organisms – plants, humans and other animals, soil, water and microorganisms such as bacteria – living together and being interdependent for survival.
An ecosystem contains producers, consumers, decomposers, and dead and inorganic matter. All ecosystems require energy from an external source – this is usually the sun. On Earth there are millions of ecosystems – everything from a small pond to the world ocean, which covers 71% of Earth’s surface and is the largest ecosystem on the planet.